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HD Dimension Corp

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Princeton,

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experience in SAP Financial Functionals
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Oracle vs SAP - Which way should you go?

A lot of companies discuss the

differences between Oracle/Peoplesoft and SAP, when they go for any implementation. I feel there are two BIG ones:

1.

Superior Integration in SAP due to Organic build up vs acquisition strategy of Oracle.
2. SAP's vision for next 5-10

years is very tangible and clear - so reduced risk for a CIO vs Oracle with its stable full of various competing and myriad

products like Peoplesoft/Oracle/Siebel and no clear, well defined, strategy for a CIO of the next 5-10 years.

BI Tool Selection Process

Here are some best practices for BI Tool selection. These are good pointers

here from Tim Furey - however, he has analyzed this important decision

from the BI silo only! In my view, that is a major problem with most of the decision making that goes

about in the industry today! BI is the HOTbed on which most of the future applications (assuming the company is still

running with OLTP but not much of OLAP environment in place).Â

COGNOS offers Powerpoint Support and Better Search within BI suite

COGNOS and Hyperion are the main

players that give a tough fight to SAP in the BI/BPM space. In fact the competition from these two players prevents many

companies to take a decision - so much so that they go into a decision spiral. It would have been great if Oracle could buy

Hyperion - because then the field would be clear and the decisions one way or the other would be faster!!

It fairly

obvious that these two players will try and make their products more chic and cool as well as powerful since their entire

concentration is here... here COGNOS forges a strong tie in to the MSFT products - even powerpoint.. something that is likely

to go very well with the clients!

Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem

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LinuxInsider.com


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Eighteen months ago,

John Roberts, Clint Oram and Jacob Taylor decided to quit their jobs at Epiphany, a maker of customer-relationship software

Get your FREE Oracle Database Software Kit today!. The trio wanted to target the same market, but write a new application

developed using open-source code. It took them only three months to create the program and just another month to close their

first round of funding. Little more than a year later, their company, SugarCRM, has given away more than 325,000 copies of

its software, and raised a second round of capital, for a total of US$7.75 million.

SAP mulls extending discount offer to Siebel customers



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SAP, based in Walldorf,

Germany, launched the program, known as Safe Passage, in January 2005 in an effort to woo customers of PeopleSoft and JD

Edwards, which had been acquired by Oracle Corp. (ORCL). Last week, Oracle agreed to acquire Siebel, the leader in customer

relationship management software, for $5.85 billion.

Open source ERP systems ??

One of the

clients I know is very interested in open source solutions. Does anyone have any recommendations for an open source ERP

system (no or very cheap license requirements) ?

Would also appreciate any comments from experience with open source

ERP systems.
Perhaps, other SAP professionals may also be interested in this as this could even have a bearing on the

SAP market in the future.

Oracle will pay $5.85 billion for rival Siebel

Software giant Oracle Corp. agreed to buy rival Siebel Systems Inc. for

$5.85 billion yesterday in a deal reflecting a wave of consolidation in the once-booming software sector.

The deal was

widely viewed as a win for Siebel shareholders, who analysts say were pushing for the company's sale, yielding them $10.66

per share for stock that has dropped 13 percent since the beginning of the year.

Oracle-Siebel mega-merger: Analysts speak

Oracle's mega-merger with Siebel Systems received mixed reviews on Monday from

analysts, customers and partners but there were few concerns about the companies' ability to integrate.